Hackathons

Since people from many different timezones are in the same room, development is almost around the clock. Developers sometimes joke about returning home without jet-lag.

Hackathons attendees come by invitation only. Some new people who show promise are sometimes invited to see if they have what it takes. Hackathons are not developer training events.

Recently OpenBSD has been experimenting with the idea of holding more mini-hackathons. These events are limited to a maximum of 16 people and 4 days and focus on only one or two aspects of the system.

Here are some details about past and future events, also showing a part of the artwork from the event T-shirt (if there was one made). The shirts are only given to people who attend the event, and they are worn with pride. Every shirt contains at least one developer in-joke, so don't worry if you can't understand the shirt. Just enjoy them.

[No shirt was made for this event] c99: Focused on IPSEC Jun 4 - 6, 1999 Calgary, Alberta 10 developers	[No shirt was made for this event] c2k: General hackathon Jun 15 - 18, 2000 Calgary, Alberta 18 developers	[No shirt was made for this event] c2k1: Birth of PF Jun 21 - 26, 2001 Cambridge, Massachusetts 25 developers
[No shirt was made for this event] c2k1-2: Focused on sparc64 Aug 17 - 20, 2001 Washington, DC 12 developers	c2k2: General hackathon Jun 4 - 12, 2002 Calgary, Alberta 42 developers	c2k3: General hackathon May 8 - 20, 2003 Calgary, Alberta 51 developers
pf2k4: Focused on pf development Apr 24 - 28, 2004 Sechelt, BC 12 developers	c2k4: General hackathon Jun 19 - 26, 2004 Calgary, Alberta 46 developers	c2k5: General hackathon May 21 - 28, 2005 Calgary, Alberta 60 developers
v2k5: Focused on ports Nov 1 - 4, 2005 San Servolo, Venice, Italy 12 developers	c2k6: General hackathon May 21 - 29, 2006 Calgary, Alberta 47 developers	r2k6: Focused on network routing Jun 14 - 18, 2006 Hamburg, Germany 6 developers
k2k6: Focused on IPSEC and IKE Aug 28 - Sep 1, 2006 Schloss Kransberg, Germany 14 developers	p2k6: Focused on ports Oct 18 - 22, 2006 Budapest, Hungary 14 developers	h2k6: Focused on drivers for hardware Nov 25 - 30, 2006 Coimbra, Portugal 14 developers
f2k7: Focused on Filesystems Apr 10 - 15, 2007 Vienna, Austria 14 developers	c2k7: General hackathon May 25 - Jun 2, 2007 Calgary, Alberta 50 developers	p2k7: Focused on ports Oct 22 - 28, 2007 Budapest, Hungary 13 developers
h2k7: Hardware hackathon Nov 22 - 29, 2007 Coimbra, Portugal 11 developers	n2k8: Network hackathon May 5-10, 2008 Ito, Japan 18 developers	c2k8: General hackathon June 6-15, 2008 Edmonton, Alberta 55 developers
p2k8: Ports hackathon Oct 24 - 31, 2008 Budapest, Hungary 13 developers	h2k8: Hardware hackathon Nov 20 - 27, 2008 Coimbra, Portugal 18 developers	n2k9: Network hackathon Jan 26 - 30, 2009 Basel, Switzerland 19 developers
c2k9: General hackathon May 30 - Jun 7, 2009 Edmonton, Alberta 46 developers	f2k9: Filesystem/uvm hackathon Aug 7 - 14, 2009 Stockholm, Sweden 14 developers	p2k9: Ports hackathon Oct 9 - 16, 2009 Budapest, Hungary 14 developers
h2k9: Hardware hackathon Nov 21 - 27, 2009 Coimbra, Portugal 15 developers	n2k10: Network hackathon Jan 9 - 15, 2010 Melbourne, Australia 17 developers	c2k10: General hackathon Jun 25 - Jul 3, 2010 Edmonton, Alberta 46 developers
j2k10: mini-hackathon in Japan Sep 19 - 25, 2010 Akiyamago, Sakae Mura, Nagano, Japan 19 developers	p2k10: Ports hackathon Oct 23 - 29, 2010 Budapest, Hungary 19 developers	k2k11: Kernel hackathon Apr 1 - 7, 2011 Hafnarfjordur, Iceland 15 developers
c2k11: General hackathon Jul 2 - 9, 2011 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 36 developers	s2k11: General hackathon Sep 16 - 23, 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia 25 developers	a2k11: ARM hackathon Nov 5 - 12, 2011 Coimbra, Portugal 8 developers
p2k11: Ports hackathon Nov 12 - 18, 2011 Budapest, Hungary 15 developers	r2k12: rthreads hackathon Apr 10 - 14, 2012 Paris, France 16 developers	g2k12: general hackathon Jul 7 - 14, 2012 Budapest, Hungary 41 developers
n2k12: network hackathon Sep 17 - 21, 2012 Starnberg, Germany, 23 developers